Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1973. A C17 Cottage.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-marble-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Back Lane, North Cockerington
- OS grid reference
- TF 371 909
- Coordinates
- 53.39758, 0.06156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with 20th-century alterations. It features a timber frame and colourwashed brick, topped with a thatched roof that has three gabled dormers on the north side and a single dormer on the south side, all fitted with 20th-century casements and leaded lights. The building has a projecting gable stack and a single ridge stack, and it is one storey with an attic.
The south front has four bays, with a brick plinth and a 20th-century timber-framed, thatched porch on the right, which includes a plank, studded rib door. There is one casement window to the right and two casement windows to the left, all featuring wooden lintels and leaded lights. Inside, the complete timber box frame is visible, with straight braces exposed. The cottage also has 20th-century fireplaces.
Local climate
Oak Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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